Re: OT: Nexus5K/3560

I can't see why not, I did also some tests with VPC between 5K and 2K but
got to many offline 2K's. I didn't found it very stable. Between a 5K and
3750E it worked liked a charm. But I agree for production I wouldn't use it
yet.

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Ram Shummoogum <rshummoo_at_ca.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hi:
>
> There are 2 N5K back to back in LACP as VPC peers. I want to connect a
> 3560, one link going to first 5K and the second to the other 5k and let
> STP take care of the loop.
> I don't want to VPC them.
> Is this possible. My guts is telling me yes. Unfortunately no access to
> test.
>
> FYI: I did the 2k/5K VPC last week. works ok. Note that once you do VPC
> between the 2K and the 5K, you cannot do VPC for a server connected to the
> 2k.
> Etherchannel is not supported also on the 2K ( a server with 2 legs
> connected on the same 2K)
> Also, you cannot span a destination port on the 2K. However, you can do
> source span.
>
> I think VPC is still fragile as it came out on 31st on July on the 5K so
> walk carefully. I lost my 2 X5K by just doing a no spannin vlan 100
> on an edge port.
> I had to reboot both to restore.
>
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